Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan
The Mental Health and Wellbeing Delivery Plan sets out our priorities and actions to help us achieve our vision of a Scotland, free from stigma and inequality, where everyone fulfils their right to achieve the best mental health and wellbeing possible.
Annex D – Wider Policy Landscape
Improving mental health and wellbeing support and services will require working across government policies to ensure the impacts on people’s mental health and wellbeing are considered during the development of all relevant policies.
There are a number of policy issues that are closely interlinked with mental health including, but not limited to, education, infant and early childhood and rural communities.
The below publications are some examples of actions and work to improve mental health and wellbeing and which are not duplicated in this Delivery Plan.
Self harm Strategy and Action Plan (2023)
Improving Wellbeing and Working Cultures (2024)
Student Mental Health Action Plan (2024)
Safe Spaces Scoping Report (2024)
Mental Health Nursing Review report: Advancing our Commitment to Care, Compassion and Connection (2025)
Mental Health – Distress Framework for Collaboration: multi agency partnership approach (2025)
Mental Health Partnership Delivery Group: Collaborative Commitments Plan (2025)
Future Medical Workforce Phase 1 report (2025)
Mental health and wellbeing : learning starters | Turas | Learn (2025)
Creating Hope Together: Scotland's Suicide Prevention Action Plan 2026-2029 (2026)
Supporting children and young people experiencing a mental health crisis: framework (2026)
Veterans Mental Health and Wellbeing Pathway – National Framework (2026)
The Psychiatry Recruitment and Retention Working Group Report (2026)
The Scottish Government’s Response to Psychiatry Working Group’s Report (2026)
National Islands Plan (2026)